Brilliant Grapes sheltered by leaves. Prestele lithograph c1890.

$85.00

Antique print of Grapes. Chromolithograph by William Prestele.

Original Grapes from watercolour, drawn and lithographed by botanical illustrator, William Heinrich Prestele (or William Henry Presetele) and printed by George S. Harris & Sons Lithographers of Philadelphia in 1890, for one of the earliest Yearbooks of the United States Department of Agriculture Division of Pomology.

Artists were employed by USDA to create watercolours and lithographs of fruit and vegetables that were growing in the U.S. These charming illustrations were printed to promote cultivation of crops, but as there was not a large circulation they are rarely seen today.

Image size is 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches).